A computer implemented method for object detection includes the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: acquiring an image; determining a pixel of the image as a base pixel; determining coordinates of a plurality of sets of target pixels, each set of target pixels including a plurality of pixels in a respective pre-determined relationship to the base pixel; for each of the sets of target pixels, determining information representing values of the pixels in the respective set of target pixels; and determining whether a pre-determined object is shown in the image based on the determined information.
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2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the pre-determined object is shown in the image based on the determined information using an artificial neural network.
5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein respective lines of the plurality of sets of target pixels have pairwise different directions.
6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information representing values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels comprises the values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels.
7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information representing values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels comprises binarized values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels.
8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information representing values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels comprises information of pixels along a pre-determined order of the pixels until a first pixel with a pre-determined property is present.
9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information representing values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels comprises information of pixels having a pre-determined property.
10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information representing values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels comprises an indicator for each of the pixels indicating whether that respective pixel has a pre-determined property.
14. The system of claim 11, wherein the computer hardware components are further configured to acquire the image by determining a crop to an input image around an area of high intensity determined in the input image.
16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed, configure the computer hardware components to determine whether the pre-determined object is shown in the image based on the determined information using an artificial neural network.
20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the information representing values of the pixels in that respective set of target pixels comprises information of pixels along a pre-determined order of the pixels until a first pixel with a pre-determined property is present.
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